Absolutely !
If the pipe is sealed up (it’s already been thoroughly rinsed) why can’t it stay....the replacement hose should be easily removable when it’s time to replace it. And perhaps one day when I have to dismantle the bathroom to get some future problems, it will then be removed.
The fault lies with boat builders.....they install everything before the liner is lowered onto the hull....they don’t provide any photographic or detailed diagrams. This is a production boat....you aren’t invited to the factory to inspect (and record) during the build process.....anymore than I could visit my Tesla during it’s construction
Actually you are partly wrong.
Beneteau wouldn’t tell our local Beneteau dealer how to remove the fuel tank.....and these people communicated with each other on a first name basis
I don’t know about totally dry.....but if I leave it a week to dry....then I will get all the complaints from this lot that I work too slowly
...so my plan is to seal it up tomorrow and then put the new hose in the next day
And next years thread. Horrible smell in my boat. Would a sealed up heads pipe cause it ?I don’t know about totally dry.....but if I leave it a week to dry....then I will get all the complaints from this lot that I work too slowly
In all honesty....it can’t.....at least not for a generation or two
Well it can because that cheapo plastic wire wrapped hose is permeable and the wire breaks down, so it could leak and disintegrate…!
Yes....in a generation or two
Or a year or two. Honestly, I’d get rid of it; and do the other two things, fresh water flush and a Tecma.
I definitely want to do a fresh water flush....but I have a few projects to do before that
I asked about seeing my car, MG ZT260, getting built, so MG Rover gave me a factory tour, however my car had already been through the build by the day of the tour, but I did get to see how they made my car with another one that was going through the build. After the initial body construction the bodyshell was removed from the assembly line and then hand modified for rear wheel drive, then returned to the line where the interior was done as a batch of 4 cars then pulled off the line again and the running gear and engine stuff-up was done separately
Obviously this is your boat and your call, but given that this work is now needed and the hose is the biggest PITA, I’d really not see any benefit in delaying doing the job properly, you’ll have to pull it apart anyway.
I am working on it now….my plan is still to entomb it…if it miraculously slides out….then I will remove it.
Plus, the current hose is 25mm, the Tecma hose is 38mm, so that will need changing again.
